Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it's in our midst-or just across the ocean-if only we can find eyes to see it. Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama's Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld - or can it be found in the here and now? For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global soul's delight in observing cultures with a pilgrim's readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives.
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Peter Somerville-Large
Time Books International
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Christina Noble
Collins London
Yeti An Abominable History
Graham Hoyland
William Collins/Harper Collins Publishers
Walking The Himalayas
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Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette Book Group
Wonders Of The Himalaya
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Pilgrims Publishing Varanasi
A Glimpse Of Eternal Snows
Jane Wilson Howarth
Feel Books/Speaking Tiger Pvt. Ltd.
Ulto Sulto From A Different Point Of View
Linda Kreiss
Vajra Books/Vajra Publications Inc. Pvt. Ltd.
The Silk Road Leather Binding
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